v16_0676 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 140.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 140.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 11-12/307
Mint name / Town : Lyonnaise, Lugdunum (Lyon)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Très beau portrait avec une patine marron. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers avec un type inhabituel
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N DIOCLETIANO P F S AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Dioclétien à droite avec la trabea, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et la mappa de la main gauche (H*5).
Obverse translation : “Domino Nostro Diocletiano Pio Felico Seniori Augusto”, (À notre seigneur Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste le plus ancien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : QVIES - AVGG/ S|C// PLG.
Reverse description : Quies (le Repos) drapé debout à gauche, tenant un rameau de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Quies Augustorum”, (Le Repos des augustes).
Historical background
DIOCLETIAN
(20/11/284-1/05/305)
After abdication
Diocletian compelled his colleague Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305, Galerius and Constantius becoming augusts and the two former augusts receiving the titles of Beatissimo and Felicissimo. Maximian retired to his estates in Italy. He accepted his retirement badly and returned to service to help his son Maxence, after 306, before falling out with him the following year. Diocletian, as "Senior Augusti", organized the last chance conference to save the Tetrarchy at Carnuntum on November 11, 308. He then retired to Salona (Split) where he died in 313 or 316, possibly assassinated.
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